Posted on 01/24/2005 1:30:52 AM PST by flitton
POP star Andy Bell says he always WANTED to be HIV positive. The gay Erasure singer, 40, revealed he is HIV positive last month — six years after diagnosis.
And in a new interview he says: “You are going to think this strange, but I wanted to be HIV positive. I thought HIV was a touchstone of being gay.
“But I’m a fighter. They will have to take me from this world kicking and screaming.”
Bandmate Vince Clarke, 44, insisted Bell’s diagnosis did not change anything. He said: “I had no fear this was the end.
“I have other friends in similar situations, and with the development of maintenance drugs, it wasn’t a death sentence.”
Announcing he was HIV positive, Bell said: “My life expectancy should be the same as anyone else, so there is no need to panic.”
Erasure, who topped the charts in the ’80s and ’90s, recently reached No4 with single Breathe.
Sigh. Well, he wanted to be stupid, fine by me.
BTW, my sister is a big Erasure fan. She's also a liberal...
Where, oh where, was the "Projectile Vomit Alert"???
Truly bizarre thinking. The mind is a very powerful thing. Thought often precedes action. This individual's self-fulfilling prophecy seems to have come true. Sad story.
Jesus said: "And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore, they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." -from THE BIBLE: Matthew 19:4-6
You fool .. there is no cure .. hence you just signed your own death certificate
Andy Bell's just slightly older than I am. Reading what he said makes me wonder how he managed to survive to the age of forty being a complete and utter moron.
I have read about bug chasing but just from the media it's difficult to know if it's widespread or if it's just journalists blowing up the stories of a few people into a trend. This guy had, on the surface, most of what anyone could want, money, achievements, a satisfying career, friends etc and yet still didn't feel like part of a wider community. It's as if being in the gay community wasn't enough so he came up with an idea of being somehow 'ultra gay' by having HIV. I agree, very sad.
Other people might think it strange, but not me. I am a born-and-raised San Franciscan, and have seen people with your warped outlook up close for two decades now.
I thought HIV was a touchstone of being gay.
No, it's a touchstone of being promiscuous and hedonistic.
“But I’m a fighter. They will have to take me from this world kicking and screaming.”
Not many people who develop AIDS after contracting HIV have the strength to kick, but they do plenty of screaming.
Never heard of the birdwacker before ...hope I never do again ...Being gay is one thing ...bug chasing an entirely different matter ...Sick sick sick ...Yet music world scum like this freak are idolized and have at least a modicum of influence over young people who haven't God in their hearts ...
*sigh*
Well ma'am, you might panic when your eyes melt into the back of your head or some usually benign virus eats your brain away.
What an utter and complete horror these people are!
It's like some sort of twlight zone freak show where one contestant tries to outdo the next.
I'm not kidding, this strikew me as horrific.
Gay pride is all about "look at me". Perhaps if they didn't need to rebel against their parents they would not find themselves in this situation.
More condoms in schools is NOT the answer to this problem.
They know about condoms, thankyouverymuch.
Condoms in schools is just to get society to concede the issue of teen sex.
Can't be a REAL playa unless you get syphillis and DON'T get treatment, dog!
Wow, gives new meaning to the phrase: be careful what you wish for...
Darwin award
And being a homo is not mental illness?
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